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alias: operation-guide-discoveryservicemonitoring
description: "This documentation outlines monitoring procedures for a critical service’s availability components"
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# Discovery Service Monitoring

The Critical Manufacturing Discovery Service is a service in the WSFC all the best practices regarding cluster monitoring should be applied.
There are different components monitored for availability:

1. The cluster reports status of the cluster nodes, resource groups, and all resources.
2. The cluster nodes report the status of cluster groups on that node; state of other nodes; and state of resource groups.
3. The cluster instances report the availability of the instance.